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SUBMITTER: Clark PU
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3358890 | biostudies-other | 2012 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Clark Peter U PU Shakun Jeremy D JD Baker Paul A PA Bartlein Patrick J PJ Brewer Simon S Brook Ed E Carlson Anders E AE Cheng Hai H Kaufman Darrell S DS Liu Zhengyu Z Marchitto Thomas M TM Mix Alan C AC Morrill Carrie C Otto-Bliesner Bette L BL Pahnke Katharina K Russell James M JM Whitlock Cathy C Adkins Jess F JF Blois Jessica L JL Clark Jorie J Colman Steven M SM Curry William B WB Flower Ben P BP He Feng F Johnson Thomas C TC Lynch-Stieglitz Jean J Markgraf Vera V McManus Jerry J Mitrovica Jerry X JX Moreno Patricio I PI Williams John W JW
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20120213 19
Deciphering the evolution of global climate from the end of the Last Glacial Maximum approximately 19 ka to the early Holocene 11 ka presents an outstanding opportunity for understanding the transient response of Earth's climate system to external and internal forcings. During this interval of global warming, the decay of ice sheets caused global mean sea level to rise by approximately 80 m; terrestrial and marine ecosystems experienced large disturbances and range shifts; perturbations to the c ...[more]